The Delta independent., 1887-01-18
TELEGRAPH BREVIIIES.

San Francisco had an earthquake on
the 18th.
Lawrence, Kansas. suffered from a
500 600 fire last Saturday.
The international Union of Brick
layers have refused to join the knights of
Labor.
Lord Iddesleigh died suddenly of
heart disease in the rooms of the Marquis
of Salisbury.
5The freedom of the city of London
has been conferred on Henry NJ. Stanley,
the African explorer.
Papers have been filed in the United
States Circuit Court at Boston attacking the
Bell Telephone patent.
The corn, wheat and oats crops of
the United States for the year 1856 had a
farm" value of 81, ,11O, 100000.
A fire in the residence of Professor
Bell, at Washington, destroyed a library
of 5000 volumes of scientific works.
1t is said that the railroad lobby at
Washington have about given up all hopes
of defeating the Interstate Commerce bill.
The stock of wheat vet on hand in
California is 10000 tons, go, 900 tons of
which is available for shipment to Europe
The New York World calls upon the
Democrats and Republicans to unite and
elect Roscoe Conkling Senator from New
York.
Four hundred coal miners at the
National mine in Washingtonville, Ohio.
demand an increase in wages and are on a
strike.
The Alcazar palace at Toledo. in
had only lately been restored at a cost of
100000.
During the year 1886 the value of
the exports of breadstuffs from the United
States were SIS, 49,, ,0s3 in excess of the pre-
vious year.
The Eighth National Convention of
the American Agricultural and Dairy As
ISOLATION has been called in New York City
Feb. sth and 9th.
Bismarck made a long speech in the
German parliament on the l1th in which he
stated that France was still the only enemy
they had to watch.
About 1000 hands employed in the
tobacco factory of the Lorillards in New
York quit work because of a proposed re-
duction in wages
DIR. William Perry. the oldest gradu-
ate of Harvard College, died a. Exeter. y.
H., aged as years, He was passenger on
Fulton's first steamboat.
The public strip south of Kansas and
Colorado, known as No Mans Land. has
been created a land district and attached to
Kansas for judicial purposes.
The jury at Wyandotte. Kansas,
which was trying Hamilton, the alleged
train-wrecker, has been discharged il being
impossible to agree upon verdict.
Hon. Charles B. Farwell has been
nominated by the Republicans of the Illi-
nois Legislature to succeed Senator Logan,
and W. r. Morrison by the Democrats.
In a New Haven court last week two
railroad men were fined $50 each for con-
spiracy upon complaint of man whose
name they had put upon BLACK list"
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the organization of the Albany
National Bank, of Laramie City, with
capital of slOo, 900, to commence business.
John Roach, the ship builder. died
ls To-
of the 10th. The deceased leaves a widow
and three sons and one daughter, all grown.
Alexander Crawford, a prominent
Duluth iron manufacturer. and his four
brothers have been left fortune Of over
fl,oo,o 900 by the death of a cousin in Aus
tralia.
A young man in Louisville, Ky..
while kissing his sweetheart goodnight
was taken with choking sensation in his
throat, from which he almost Immediately
died.
In commenting on Bismarck's great
speech, lie Matin, Of Paris, says, "the ac-
count will never be settled as long as the
German flag floats over Metz and Stras-
bourg."
Mrs. Linsay, the elder of the two wo-
men who were arrested in Paris, in connec-
ton with swindling game, attempted sui
eide in prison by opening an artery in her
arm with piece Of glass.
The Senate Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia have ordered an adverse
report on the nomination of j. c. Mathews
of Albany, New York. the colored Register
Of Deeds of this District
Engineer Dewitt, of Missouri Pa
ciic passenger train, was killed and the ex-
press messenger fatally injured, in a wreck
near Dunbar, Nebraska. Two men have
been arrested for removing the rails.
The German Reichstag voted ad-
versely on the Army bill introduced by the
Government and as a punishment for so do
Ing was Immediately dissolved by Prince
Bismarck. Elections for new parliament
will be held February 81.
The election Of John l.. Sullivan, the
champion pugilist RS member of John A
Cameron Lodge, No. $40. Ancient Order of
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